The United States established diplomatic relations with Serbia on November 10, 1882 when Eugene Schuyler was appointed resident U.S. ambassador to Serbia, Romania and Greece, in Athens. The United States Embassy in Serbia is located in Belgrade. The embassy has been overseen by interim chargé d'affaires Alexander Titolo since 2025. The U.S. ambassadorship to Serbia has been formally vacated since January 2025.
Some parts of today's Serbia had been under the occupation of the Ottoman Empire (from 1459 until 1804) while other parts were occupied by Habsburg monarchy (1526–1804), Austrian Empire (1804–1867), and Austria-Hungary (1867–1918). Upon regaining its independence (partial in 1804 and full in 1878), the Serbian state strengthened and expanded and was in 1918 the driving force behind the creation of Yugoslavia (the land of South Slavs, a multi-ethnic state that over the following seven decades experienced various models of governance). In 1992 Yugoslavia disintegrated, although two of its constituent units - Serbia and Montenegro - continued in the same federal state under the same name Yugoslavia until 2003, when they re-organized into Serbia and Montenegro. After the Montenegrin independence referendum in May 2006, Serbia, as the only remaining unit in the federation, restored its independence on 5 June 2006.
Since July 17, 1919, U.S. diplomatic missions were based in Yugoslavia and since May 1992 after the breakup of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia – United States relations cooled off, were severed after the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The U.S. Embassy formally reopened in Belgrade in May 2001.
Ambassadors +PortraitNameTitleAppointedPresented credentialsTerminated missionNotesKingdom of SerbiaEugene Schuyler – Career FSOEnvoy Extraordinary and Minister PlenipotentiaryNovember 10, 1882September 19, 1884Resident in Athens, GreeceWalker Fearn – Career FSOSeptember 19, 1884September 28, 1885October 24, 1889Resident in Athens, GreeceA. Loudon Snowden – Career FSOOctober 24, 1889November 28, 1889August 25, 1892Resident in Athens, GreeceEben Alexander – Career FSOAugust 25, 1892June 29, 1894August 10, 1897Resident in Athens, GreeceWilliam Woodville Rockhill – Career FSOAugust 10, 1897May 7, 1898April 27, 1899Resident in Athens, GreeceArthur S. Hardy – Career FSOApril 27, 1899June 24, 1900March 2, 1901Resident in Athens, GreeceCharles S. Francis – Career FSOMarch 2, 1901May 13, 1901December 24, 1902Resident in Athens, GreeceJohn Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSODecember 24, 1902October 13, 1902July 13, 1905Resident in Athens, GreeceJohn W. Riddle – Career FSOJuly 13, 1905May 7, 1906January 23, 1907Resident in Bucharest, RomaniaHorace G. Knowles – Career FSOJanuary 23, 1907January 16, 1907February 4, 1909Resident in Bucharest, RomaniaJohn R. Carter – Career FSOFebruary 4, 1909May 3, 1910October 27, 1911Resident in Bucharest, RomaniaJohn Brinkerhoff Jackson – Career FSOOctober 27, 1911January 16, 1912October 15, 1913Resident in Bucharest, RomaniaCharles J. Vopicka – Career FSOOctober 15, 1913December 15, 1913December 17, 1918Resident in Bucharest, RomaniaFor U.S. Ambassadors between 1918 and 1992, see United States Ambassador to YugoslaviaSerbia and MontenegroRobert Rackmales – Career FSOChargés d'affaires ad interimMay 1992N/AJuly 1993Rudolf V. Perina – Career FSOJuly 1993N/AFebruary 1996Lawrence Butler – Career FSOFebruary 1996N/AAugust 1996Richard M. Miles – Career FSOAugust 1996N/AMarch 1999The embassy was closed from March 1999 to October 2000.William Dale Montgomery – Career FSO Chargés d'affaires ad interimOctober 2000N/AJanuary 2002William Dale Montgomery – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJanuary 4, 2002January 4, 2002February 29, 2004Michael C. Polt – Career FSOFebruary 29, 2004May 21, 2004August 3, 2007Republic of SerbiaCameron Munter – Career FSOAmbassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryJuly 26, 2007August 15, 2007January 19, 2010Mary Burce Warlick – Career FSODecember 24, 2009January 28, 2010September 17, 2012Michael David Kirby – Career FSOAugust 3, 2012September 19, 2012January 29, 2016Kyle Randolph Scott – Career FSOSeptember 15, 2015February 5, 2016September 27, 2019Anthony Francis Godfrey – Career FSOSeptember 30, 2019October 24, 2019February 12, 2022Christopher Robert Hill – Career FSOMarch 11, 2022March 31, 2022January 10, 2025
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See also Serbia–United States relations Foreign relations of the United States
References United States Department of State: Background notes on Serbia
External links United States Department of State: Chiefs of Mission for Serbia United States Department of State: Serbia United States Embassy in Belgrade